Charcoal drawing

Definitions

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Charcoal drawing(Fine Arts) a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it.

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Usage

In literature:

Very soon the first charcoal drawings were rubbed off, and Peter drew his best designs to ornament his friend's room.

"De La Salle Fifth Reader" by Brothers of the Christian Schools

With a piece of charcoal he made a great drawing of angels surrounding God the Father on the wall.

"Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3" by John Addington Symonds

The charcoal drawings went even farther into dream terrors.

"Against The Grain" by Joris-Karl Huysmans

The picture called Filling the Water-Bottles was, on the other hand, a charcoal drawing, corresponding to no similar painting.

"Jean Francois Millet" by Estelle M. Hurll

The discipline of silver-point drawing is to be recommended as a corrective to the picturesque vagaries of charcoal work.

"The Practice and Science Of Drawing" by Harold Speed

On the walls was a drawing of a head in charcoal and some flowers and birds.

"Nobody's Boy" by Hector Malot

Charcoal drawing, 68, 70.

"Line and Form (1900)" by Walter Crane

The effects were broad, after the manner of a charcoal drawing.

"The Opened Shutters" by Clara Louise Burnham

With art: Charcoal drawing representing the rabbit in various attitudes, as squatting, listening, hopping.